Improvement in beer-faucets



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,Stuten sind A. D. PUFFER, OF SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 86,861, lated Febr-navy 9, 1869.

f IMPRCV'EMENT IN BEER-FA'UCETS.

The Schedule refen'ed to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same rJhis improvement has particular reference to the construction of faucets to be used in connection with that class of beerpumps, soda-apparatus, 85o., in which the i' draught-cocks are made with a handle, placed over the centre ofthe faucet, and swinging down in front ofthe saine, so as to have au ornamentation, or symmetry of design, suitable for counters or saluons; and my invention relates to the construction of the handle for operating the plug or valve of such draught-cock.

The plug, or valve, extends horizontally through the head of the faucet, and the handle is bifurcated, having two arms secured, respectively', to the opposite ends of the plug, and uniting at the point where the' handle is to be worked by band; and

My invent-ion consists in making this handle of two independeutparts, each secured, at one end, to one end of the plug, by a suitable sorewastening, and both united and c'ontiucd together at their opposite ends by a suitablesleeve or screw-nut.

The drawings represent a faucet embodying myime provernent.

A shows a side elevation of the faucet.

B'is a vertical section in the line x in.

u. denotes the horizontal body, or barrel, of the faucet, haring, at its rear end, a screw b, by which it is .fastened to the liquid-containing vessel, and, at its op posite end, an reduction-tube, c, through which the liquid is drawn. ,l

d denotes the plug, or valve, extending through the head c, and controlling the passge from the tube a into the tube c.

-f denotes the handle byvwbicb the plug is opelnted.

The two parts ofthe handle are respectii'fely denoted by the letters g 7i, each being composed of a vertical stern, i i', with an' arm, k 7c', branching therefrom, as seen at B. Y

The leveneud of each arm, k, is made with o: ring, l,

which slips over the end of the plug, (as seen at 13,) the arm, at one end of the plug, being screwed up against a shoulder', m, ou the plug, by a screw, n., (a flange on the head of whiclrabuts against the ring l,) and the arrn at the opposite end being screwed up against a spring, o, by a similar4 screw, p, the spring abutting against the head e, and the *dange of the screw against the ring.

Each stem, 'i t', is made semi-cylindrical, or slightly conical, and each has, atits lower end, a half screwthread, q, and, at its upper end, ahalf screw-thread, ir, the two threads, q g, when brought together, forming a screw, upon which is vplaced a uut, s, and the two threads, fr fr, a screw, over which is placed a screwcap, t, the cap t. screwing down against a sleeve, u, which is dropped upon the nut s, as seen at A and B.

The nut s may be dispensed with, but I prefer to use it.

In putting the faucet together, the plug, or valve d,

is first passed through the head e, and the ring at the en'd of the arm fi is then slipped upon and secured to the large end of the plug by the screw n,- {or this arm muy be applied before insertion of the plug.)

The' spring o is then slipped upon the opposite end of the plug, and the ring of the arm h is slipped over the end of the plug, and is screwed up against the spring by the screw p. p

The two stem-pieces, 'L if, being then brought together, the nut s is screwed down over the threads q, the sleeve w is dropped upon the stem, and the cap t is screwed down upon the top of the stem.

Aswill be readily seen, this forms a strong and substantiel handle, which remains perfectly fast to the plug, which can be readily dismembered for removal of the plug, and which forms au ornamental lever, or handle, for operating the plug, standing centrally over the head' of the faucet.A A

I clairna faucet, having a. handle for operating the plug, or valve, made in two parts, fastened, at their lower ends, to the opposite ends of the plug, and united, at their upper ends, substantially as described.

' A. D. PUFFER.

Witnesses:

J. B. CROSBY, F. Goutn. 

